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Apple's new iPad – the third product in the line
by Milota Sidorova

It seems everything coming out of Apple is causing a real shake. Not only among marketers and IT specialists, but the impact is visible on markets as well. Yesterday, Apple introduced its third player in the game - the iPad and technological index Nasdaq rose about one percent. What is coming right now is basically nothing new, it is a hybrid between iPhone and notebook.iPad is also a mixture of iSlate and iTablet, it is the first one piece device containing 25 cm fully touch sensible screen. No keyboards, no additions. Everything is managed with the fingers.Good for watching movies, listening the music, read electronic books, browsing the internet. But you have heard that ! already. Let's add some more technical parameters – the device operate with 1GHz processor contains from 16GB up to 64GB storage memory and offers some real new applications. Device has a Wi-Fi, bluetooth and 3G connection, the graphic remains on PS2 level and is acceptable for game players.iTunes includes iWork and iPhoto, the brand new thing is the iBooks that sells the books the same way iTunes does with the movies and the music. The whole product is no thicker than 1.25 cm and weighs 0.7 kg. It contains speaker and microphone, accelerometer and compass. The prices in the U.S are set up at $499 for 16GB of flash memory up to $829 for 64 GB. The international prices should reach the market before July.According Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the new era of multi-touch computers is about to begin, the question remains whether Apple will do enough to make iPad profitable. There are iPhones and computers holding the company's profits. iPods and iTunes are on decline.

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